Filmshooting

Thanks for your ideas. The shop sounds like a good place to try. The socket is a ceramic block encased in plastic with the bulb having small pin connectors so are we still talking about corrosion? Are you talking about trying to scrape the bottom of the holes? I will certainly give it a try (it's no...

I have an Elmo K100SM that I bought new. It is still in like new condition EXCEPT the lamp no longer lights. Multiple new bulbs tried. Fuse checked. Everything else purrs. Do the sockets tend to fail? Is it normal for fine salt-like particles to fall out of the socket when held upside down? And cont...

Blood Simple

A very old post but the battery pack is gone because it is the only under-engineered part of the camera. The very thin lips that hold the sliding cover on are a failure waiting to happen. I have 2 of these and am glad because one day one of the packs is going to go tits up. On a different subject, t...

I notice you never got an answer to this. I have the same question. I bought some Plus X off of Ebay and I can't find a date anywhere on the boxes. Is it now embedded in the dot matrix printing on the side?

It is a bit tricky for me to use current regular 8 stock in old cameras. The index above I believe is for ASA 25 film (old Kodachrome 40 shot in daylight). To use with ASA 100 film you have to close the camera down an additional 2 stops. The problem is that many of the old cameras only stop down to ...